January 2011
MONOTONIX tonight at One Eyed Jack's
Monotonix with Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship and Caddywhompus Tonight at One Eyed Jack’s Tickets $12 / Doors at 9pm
1850s $20 NEW ORLEANS OBSOLETE BANK NOTE
New Orleans undefeated in January
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans basketball has its longest winning streak in 14 years.
The team is undefeated in January, with a 12-4 record and seven straight victories.
The latest was against Dallas, which fell to 2-17 with the 63-42 defeat on Sunday.
The last time the Privateers had seven straight victories was in 1996-97, when Tic Price led them to their second-straight Sun Belt...
Edwards birthday bash will be roast in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Two-and-a-half weeks after his house arrest is scheduled to end, former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards will be feted at an 84th birthday bash in New Orleans.
Monteleone (MONT-uh-lee-OHN) Hotel spokeswoman Andrea Thornton says Edwards’ brother Marion wanted the party on his brother’s birthday, Aug. 7, but accepted July 30 so it could be in the ballroom where Edwin...
New Marijuana Possession Law Goes Into Effect
NEW ORLEANS — People charged with possession of marijuana in New Orleans will no longer be arrested and taken to jail.
A city law that went into effect at 7 a.m. Sunday now gives police the option of issuing a summons to violators.District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said the point of the new law is to free up local judges to handle more important cases.”This is ultimately the goal: to...
Watchithoughtiwenthere:
It’s that time of year.
Tales of the Cocktail® Announces Apprentice...
In 2010, Tales of the Cocktail®, the world’s premier cocktail festival held annually in New Orleans, announced a new, $25,000 scholarship program developed exclusively for former cocktail apprentices. After an intensive judging process, eight former apprentices from across the country were selected to receive funding for everything from advanced bartending courses to develop a universal...
WatchNew Orleans’ own Generationals performing live in NY
From BlearyEyedBrooklyn
“The state’s higher education oversight body announced Wednesday that nearly 460...”
– From the Advocate
Superdome getting spruced up, upgraded
NEW ORELANS — A giant excavator on Wednesday demolished metal risers that had supported the second-tier seating inside the Louisiana Superdome since the huge stadium’s opening in 1975, part of the last phase of an $85 million renovation to spruce up the arena and add more concession stands and thousands of new seats.
Workers with huge saws and crowbars busily reduced the risers...
Hollywood sets up permanent base in New Orleans
New Orleans has taken another step toward establishing itself as a permanent hub for the film industry. A top Hollywood visual effects company has opened an office in New Orleans. Michael Hecht, President and CEO of GNO, Inc, says Factory VFX is a major player, having worked on films like ‘2012,’ and post-producing the upcoming ‘Fast and Furious.’ “This part is part...
East New Orleans hospital closer to a reality
City officials say a hospital in eastern New Orleans that’s been closed since Hurricane Katrina will be run by apartnership of Roman Catholic medical non-profits. On Tuesday, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced that the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System and the Daughters of Charity will run a new hospital on the site of the former Methodist Hospital. Last year, the city...
Style Lab Re-Launch Party is Tomorrow
Streetcars coming to Treme, Marigny and beyond
A week following the Federal Transit Authority’s (FTA) announcement securing a new streetcar line on Loyola Avenue, New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) officials approved plans for another line — one running through Marigny, Treme and St. Roch neighborhoods.
Last week I wrote that those neighborhoods have largely been ignored from the streetcar conversation, echoing transit...
Brewstock teaches beer making at Avenue Pub
Give a man a beer, and he’ll drink for an hour. Teach a man to brew beer, and he’ll drink for a lifetime. On Sunday, January 30, Aaron Hyde of the homebrewing store Brewstock teaches beer making basics at the Avenue Pub.
“We’ll brew a batch of beer,” Hyde said, “and go over instructions for brewing that everyone who attends can take home with them. It’s definitely a class for the first time...
A case study on coats: Fashion bloggers share...
Recently, a handful of New Orleans-based fashion bloggers did a group posting on their favorite coats and jackets.
The result is a cool, peek-in-the-closet of some of our city’s fashion lovers. Magazines are great, but when it comes to inspiration, nothing beats street style and shopping with a discerning eye.
Check out their posts at the following links. I particularly like Miss Malaprop’s...
WatchPreview of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, wife Brittany and sons Baylen and Bowen appear on today’s episode of “Ellen.”
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New Orleans water system needs a systemwide fix:...
New Orleans loses 50 percent of its drinking water to underground leaks - a mind-boggling fact, no matter how often it’s repeated.
Many of those leaks are the symptoms of an old network of pipes that already needed substantial repairs before Hurricane Katrina, especially on the east bank.
But the flood caused by the failures of the federal levees during the storm greatly accelerated...
New Orleans' first park proposed in 20 years
Property once owned by a film production company that went bankrupt will become the first new public park in New Orleans in 20 years. The Trust, a national conservation group, told New Orleans CityBusiness that the $3.8 million project will be built on an 18-acre parcel along the Lafitte Corridor in New Orleans’ Mid-City neighborhood. A community development block grant is funding the...
New Orleans City Council approves solar panel for...
The New Orleans City Council voted Thursday to let a French Quarter resident install solar panels on the roof of his home, making it the first such effort in the historic neighborhood, long considered the “final frontier” as solar and other energy-efficient technologies take hold in the rebuilding city.
Longtime resident Glade Bilby had sought approval to install the panels, which...
How to make a King Cake
They are one of the earliest, edible signs that, in the immortal words of singer Al Johnson, “it’s Carnival time.” Whether iced or sugared, traditional or stuffed with any number of fillings, king cakes have become inescapable and big business, in the weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday. More than that, they have also become a year-round commodity, sold and shipped to customers worldwide....
UNO makes U.S. News & World Report's list of most...
U.S. News & World Report has ranked the University of New Orleans among the country’s most popular universities, based on the school’s yield, or the percentage of applicants accepted by a college who end up enrolling at the institution in the fall.
UNO ranked 17th on the list, with a 59.1 percent yeild in the fall of 2009. Of the 2,130 students accepted, 1,259 enrolled.
Topping...
Crocodile swallows cell phone, starts ringing
The accident in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk sounds a bit like “Peter Pan,” in which a crocodile happily went “tick-tock” after gulping down an alarm clock.
But Gena, the 14-year-old croc who swallowed the phone, has hardly been living a fairy tale: He hasn’t eaten or had a bowel movement in four weeks and appears depressed and in pain.
Gena noshed on the...
Louisiana oysters making a comeback
For the first time since the BP oil spill, one popular restaurant is serving up fresh Louisiana oysters, exclusively, all week. Some see it as a sign that the struggling industry is slowly coming back but one New Orleans distributor says the struggle, is far from over. Over at Drago’s restaurant in Metairie one customer from Texas, Mike Tooley, says the Louisiana oysters are fresher than the...
“If I were so fortunate as to be a citizen of either Central America, South...”
– Crawford H. Ellis, “International Exposition at New Orleans,” in Logical Point (August, 1910)
The 2011 Nola Jazz Fest lineup is just ridiculous →
cajunboy:
My head is spinning.
Anderson Cooper denies he sought to hype anger...
CNN’s Anderson Cooper flatly denies a report by the White House Oil Spill Commission that he “disinvited” a Louisiana Parish president and an unemployed offshore oil worker when he wasn’t assured the worker would be “angry” in reacting on screen to last summer’s Gulf oil spill.
On his CNN prime-time news show, and through a spokesman, Cooper denied...
Nicolas Cage actioner 'Medallion' gets a rewrite...
You’ll have to forgive director Simon West if he’s in a bit of a New Orleans state of mind lately.
The filmmaker who made a name for himself on such big-budget flicks as “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” and “Con Air” has been splitting much of his time lately between two tasks: Promoting his latest film, the New Orleans-shot actioner “The Mechanic,”...